The Prime Minister visited Strickland and Holt in Yarm to speak with residents and community leaders.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visited Strickland and Holt Coffee Shop in Yarm to take questions from business, charity and community leaders in the area.
He fielded questions from well-known high street businesses including Strickland and Holt, Fourteen Drops, Cinnamon Bay, Luna Blu, Santoros, Bagel Bros, Blondie Bakery and Caruso’s, as well as from local headteachers, doctors, and charitable organisations.
Topics covered ranged from plans to tackle small boats, the cost of living and reducing the NHS Backlogs as well as discussing some of the Government funding and private investment in Stockton and the Tees Valley more widely.
Matt also touched on the vast improvement to Stockton since 2019, with Thornaby, Yarm, Eaglescliffe and Billingham having seen unprecedented levelling up investment.
Matt Vickers MP said:
"Rishi lives just down the road, he's a regular visitor to Stockton and is determined to deliver for local people.
"It was great to hear from people who met him after the event and found him compassionate, driven and caring. A member of the public (not part of the gathering) even bought the PM two Christmas Decorations to give to his daughters.
"Who would have thought that youngsters in our area could get senior civil service jobs in Darlington or the next generation of well-paid green tech jobs at the UKs first and biggest Freeport.
"A new diagnostic hospital is now being built in Stockton, Yarm Town Hall has been upgraded, we're upgrading facilities at Preston Park and a new car park and toilet are in place in Yarm; while Eaglescliffe, Darlington and Middlesbrough Train stations are all benefitting from multi-million pound upgrades.
"Thornaby town deal has helped put funding in place towards a new purpose-built vocational training centre, improved cycle infrastructure, the demolition of derelict town centre buildings and building of a new swimming pool and investment in some of the most challenging housing in North Thornaby."
